{"id":948,"date":"2017-02-23T14:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=948"},"modified":"2017-02-23T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:10:27","slug":"catchings-waddill-1879-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"CATCHINGS, WADDILL, 1879-1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business executive; economist. Born&#8211; September 6, 1879, Sewanee, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Silas Fly and Nora Belle (Waddill) Catchings. Married&#8211; Helen Werner, November 7, 1914. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; May Francis, April 29, 1930. Education&#8211; Harvard University, A. B., 1901. Central Foundry in New York, president, 1911-1917; Platt Iron Works Company in Dayton, Ohio, president, 1913-1920; Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, president, 1917-1918, chairman of the executive committee, 1918-1947. President or a member of the board of Goldman, Sachs, and Company; Warner Brothers Pictures; Catchings-Denker Corporation; Concord Fund Inc.; and C. B. Advisors, Inc. Served on several councils and commissions for the U.S. government. His books on business\u00a0were extremely influential; influenced Franklin Roosevelt, among others. \u00a0Died December 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bias Against Business. New York; s.n., 1956<\/p>\n<p>Do Economists Understand Business? New York; s.n., 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Obvious Facts of Business. New York; Private printing, 1936.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business Without a Buyer. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Money. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1923.<\/p>\n<p>Money, Men, and Machines. New York; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Profits. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin, 1925.<\/p>\n<p>Progress and Plenty. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1939.<\/p>\n<p>The Road to Plently. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Business executive; economist. Born&#8211; September 6, 1879, Sewanee, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Silas Fly and Nora Belle (Waddill) Catchings. Married&#8211; Helen Werner, November 7, 1914. Children&#8211; Three. Married&#8211; May Francis, April 29, 1930. Education&#8211; Harvard University, A. B., 1901. Central Foundry in New York, president, 1911-1917; Platt Iron Works Company in Dayton, Ohio, president, 1913-1920; Sloss-Sheffield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}